List of Mac software

(Redirected from List of Macintosh software)

The following is a list of Mac software – notable computer applications for current macOS operating systems.

For software designed for the Classic Mac OS, see List of old Macintosh software.

Audio software edit

Digital audio workstations edit

Audio editing edit

DJing edit

  • djay – digital music mixing software
  • Mixxx – DJ mix software

Notation software edit

Misc audio tools edit

  • Audio Hijack – audio recorder
  • baudline – signal analyzer
  • Cog – open source audio player, supports multiple formats
  • fre:ac – open source audio converter and CD ripper
  • ixi software – free improvisation and sketching tools
  • Jaikoz – music file mass tagger
  • Max – Cycling 74's visual programming language for MIDI, audio, video; with MSP, Jitter
  • ReBirth – virtual synth program simulates Roland TR-808, TB-303
  • Recycle – music loop editor

Discontinued audio apps edit

Chat (text, voice, image, video) edit

Active edit

 
Adium on Mac OS X

Discontinued edit

Children's software edit

Developer tools and IDEs edit

Email edit

Email clients edit

Other email software edit

FTP clients edit

Games edit

  • Steam – digital distribution software for video games and related media

Graphics, layout, desktop publishing edit

CAD, 3D graphics edit

Distributed document authoring edit

Icon editors, viewers edit

File conversion and management edit

Active edit

  • Adobe Bridge – digital asset management app
  • BibDesk – free bibliographic database app that organizes linked files
  • Font Book – font management tool
  • GraphicConverter – graphics editor, open/converts a wide range of file formats
  • Photos – photo management application

Discontinued edit

  • iPhoto – discontinued photo management application

Layout and desktop publishing edit

Active edit

Discontinued edit

Raster and vector graphics edit

This section lists bitmap graphics editors and vector graphics editors.

Active edit

Discontinued edit

  • Aperture – Apple's pro photo management, editing, publishing application
  • MacPaint – painting software by Apple (discontinued)

Integrated software technologies edit

Language and reference tools edit

Mathematics software edit

Media center edit

Multimedia authoring edit

Networking and telecommunications edit

News aggregators edit

  • Feedly – news aggregator, and news aggregator reading application
  • NetNewsWire – news aggregator reading application
  • NewsFire – news aggregator reading application
  • RSSOwl – news aggregator reading application
  • Safari (web browser) - news aggregation via built-in RSS support
  • Apple Mail – news aggregation via (discontinued) built-in RSS support

Office and productivity edit

Operating systems edit

  • Darwin – the BSD-licensed core of macOS
  • macOS – originally named "Mac OS X" until 2012 and then "OS X" until 2016
  • macOS Server – the server computing variant of macOS

Outliners and mind-mapping edit

Peer-to-peer file sharing edit

Science edit

Text editors edit

Utilities edit

  • Activity Monitor – default system monitor for hardware and software
  • AppZapper – uninstaller (shareware)
  • Automator – built-in, utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • Butler – free, launcher and utility to automate repetitive tasks
  • CandyBar – system customization software (commercial)
  • CDFinder – disk cataloging software (commercial)
  • DaisyDisk – disk visualization tool
  • Dashboard – built-in macOS widgets
  • Grab (software) – built-in macOS screenshot utility
  • Growl – global notifications system, free
  • iSync – syncing software, bundled with Mac OS X up to 10.6
  • LaunchBar – provides instant access to local data, search engines and more by entering abbreviations of search item names, commercial
  • Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – proprietary, typing tutor
  • OnyX – a freeware system maintenance and optimization tool for macOS
  • Path Finder – replacement for Apple's Finder
  • Quicksilver – a framework for accessing and manipulating many forms of data
  • SheepShaver – PowerPC emulator, allows, among other things, running Mac OS 9 on Intel Macs
  • Sherlock – file searching (version 2), web services (version 3)
  • Stickies – put Post-It Note-like notes on the desktop
  • System Settings – default Mac system option application
  • UUTool – uuencoded/uudecode and other transcoding
  • Xsan – storage network utility
  • Yahoo! Widget EngineJavaScript-based widget system

Anti-malware software edit

macOS includes the built-in XProtect antimalware as part of GateKeeper. The software listed in this section is antivirus software and malware removal software.

Archiving, backup, restore, recovery edit

This section lists software for file archiving, backup and restore, data compression and data recovery.

Discontinued archiving apps edit

Disc burning apps edit

Discontinued disc burning apps edit

Video edit

Virtualization, emulation, dual-booting edit

Web browsers edit

Web design and content management edit

Weblog clients edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "AIM has been discontinued as of December 15, 2017". help.aol.com/. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved 2018-01-17.